Jon Snow is awesome, and I wasn't upset that we didn't see Joffrey at all.

I'm sure he'll get better as a character as the series progresses, but as of right now the show really drags when there is a wall segment. They haven't really done anything and it doesn't really connect well to the narrative for the other 80% of the show. At least with Daenerys storyline she is hot, and things are happening, albeit not so far in season 2.

And as far as not seeing Joeffrey he is an essential character, and his scenes are pretty compelling because of how much of an enormous Dbag he is.

I'm sure he'll get better as a character as the series progresses, but as of right now the show really drags when there is a wall segment. They haven't really done anything and it doesn't really connect well to the narrative for the other 80% of the show. At least with Daenerys storyline she is hot, and things are happening, albeit not so far in season 2.

And as far as not seeing Joeffrey he is an essential character, and his scenes are pretty compelling because of how much of an enormous Dbag he is.

Believe me when I say that the Wall becomes the most consistently eventful area starting in a few episodes all the way up until the last word of the most recent book.

Also, just a reference for everyone, the books are written in POV chapters from various characters. In the 2nd book there are 9 POV characters:

So in the show, you'll really only ever see other characters when they are interacting with one of those 9 people as long as the show sticks pretty close to what happens in the books. So since Catelyn was sent off by Robb, there was no POV for him to interact with. Only Danaerys and Davos weren't in the last episode among the POV characters.